Having unlimited resources are great, right? Not necessarily. Having constraints in many cases, could be better. I once talked to a friend from Oahu, and for more than twenty years he lived in Hawaii, he never visited Maui. Because it’s so close, and there’s so much time, he thought he could visit anytime, but he never did. I have been watching some YouTube videos on how ingenious optimizations were done in early Nintendo game development, and I recall myself spent a lot of time figuring out ways to make graphics2D render faster in graduate school. Before AWS, scaling usually means driving to bestbuy in snowy winter and buy a new machine, and between than and optimizing some code with a coffee … probably the latter. The benefit of constraint is to force a trade-off thinking: which should stay and which should go? For the best outcome in my experience, just asking for more resources isn’t necessarily the best option. Usually you can’t have the cake and eat it, if you could, then it’s probably trading for something else that you are not aware of. In the book Why We Die ‘Moreover, our very mortality may give us the incentive and desire to make the most of our time on Earth. A greatly extended life span would deprive our lives of urgency and meaning, a desire to make each day count. It is not clear that even with an entire extra lifetime, we are accomplishing more than the great writers, composers, artists, and scientists of past eras. We may well end up living a very much longer life bored and lacking in purpose’, our very humanity may be tied to our mortality, which is the ultimate constraint. Hence Carpe Diem. Think what’s important and meaningful for you and what’s not, then where to spend your limited time, just becomes clear.
Luwei C.
1mo
I've always found it fascinating how in Lord of the Rings, Tolkien portrays death as a gift bestowed upon humanity by the god Iluvatar. It really makes you think about the meaning of life.
DL Perf/MLPERF at Intel Corporation
1moIs there a real case of unlimited resources? 🤔